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If he yielded entirely, something he dreaded, without being able to define, would happen; the structure of his being would suffer a nameless violence, so that he would have to break with the world. These cravings stood for that loot of the soul which he must deny himself.
It is impossible to define the term race as applied to the subdivisions of mankind, for valid criteria are lacking. Such classifications as have been attempted, now upon a historical, now upon a linguistic, and now upon an anthropological basis, are extremely inconsistent one with another, and have been almost complete failures. There are no pure races in Europe.
Soames were always together, he had seen enough of Irene to feel the spell she cast over men. She was not a flirt, not even a coquette words dear to the heart of his generation, which loved to define things by a good, broad, inadequate word but she was dangerous. He could not say why. Tell him of a quality innate in some women a seductive power beyond their own control!
A suspicious appearance, that indescribable something which all understand and none can define, was sufficient reason that society should take a man by the collar. "Where do you live? How do you get your living?" And if he could not answer, harsh penalties awaited him. Iron and fire were in the code: the law practised the cauterization of vagrancy.
Beyond this the party was and has continued prone, in a manner which we had better not too clearly define, to insist upon the restrictions of the Constitution, whether in the interest of individual liberty or of State rights.
While, from their remarks about myself, I judged that I had changed and grown wild as much as the rest of them. In this and in a hundred other little ways the change showed, ways difficult to define in detail, but all proving not the coarsening effect of leading the primitive life, but, let us say, the more direct and unvarnished methods that became prevalent.
But this is not by any means all. It is merely the first step in a process that, quite independently of the other external evidence, thrusts the composition of the Gospels backwards and backwards to a date certainly as early as that which is claimed for them. Let us define a little more closely the chronological bearings of the subject.
Whatever his technical attributes in the polity of the Netherlands and it would be difficult to define them with perfect accuracy there is no doubt that he stood there, the head of a commonwealth, in an attitude such as had been maintained by but few of the kings, or chiefs, or high priests of history.
Now, a number of experiments prove to us that objects are known to us as excitants of our nervous system which only act on this system by entering into communication, or coming into contact with, its terminal extremities. They then produce, in the interior of this system, a peculiar modification which we are not yet able to define.
Some intermediate qualities have names, such as grey and sallow and all the other colours that come between white and black; in other cases, however, it is not easy to name the intermediate, but we must define it as that which is not either extreme, as in the case of that which is neither good nor bad, neither just nor unjust. Thus, sight and blindness have reference to the eye.
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